“The race for the White House is too close for comfort,” write parties from around Europe, calling on Stein to throw her support behind Democrat Kamala Harris.

Green politicians from across Europe on Friday called on U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to withdraw from the race for the White House and endorse Democrat Kamala Harris instead.

“We are clear that Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can block Donald Trump and his anti-democratic, authoritarian policies from the White House,” Green parties from countries including Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Estonia, Belgium, Spain, Poland and Ukraine said in a statement, which was shared with POLITICO ahead of publication

  • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    You’re assuming we voted for jill because shes jill. Which is not the case for everyone. She got my vote because of Harris’ absolutely abysmal treatment of arabs and gaza, her lack of pro labor policies, etc etc etc.

    Jill dropping out would just meant the vote went to a different non-trump candidate or left blank.

    The only way harris would have gotten my vote was if she modified her position on gaza, or a could other issues like ensuring kahn was kept.

    She declined to do so, so i declined to vote for her. 🤷 But harris will be fine my state is 20+ dem.

    • Railing5132@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      That’ll teach her! Way to go - you really stuck it to that horrible excuse of a candidate.

      It’s not like she had better labor policies (or practices) than that other guy (or did she?)

      It’s not like that other guy was (allegedly) working with an (alleged) war criminal to rebuff US efforts to make a ceasefire deal (or was he?)

      And finally, it’s not like AIPAC can literally thumbs up or down damn near any politician in the US like Julius H. Fucking, Ceasar and an almost universal bloc of voters will carry out their direction. Oh, wait, they will.

      The thing that pisses me off is that yeah, maybe she’s fine in Cali or Hawaii or wherever. But there’s gonna be a fuck of a lot more death and misery in the world if fascists get control of the United States in the form of Donald Trump, and in those few states that matter (because of the fucked up electoral college) that attitude , which I perceive as smug self-righteousness, could be the deciding factor.

      That simple worldview, unburdened with the whole idea of “you can’t make change if you’re not elected” must really be comfortable.

      But you sure showed Harris.

      I’d love to expound on this thought, but I have a fussy infant daughter that needs attending. BTW, it would be really cool if she FUCKING DIDN’T have to grow up in some goddamned Handmaid’s Tale dystopia.